Best SEO & PPC Questions and Answers II

1. What does the term 'keyword stuffing' refer to?

Answers:

• Overloading a page with keywords.

• Posting SEO rich comments on your own webpage.

• Repeating the same SEO terms over multiple social media channels.

• Overusing SEO in Gmail subject lines

2. Why is it bad idea from SEO perspective to host free articles and write ups that are very common on the internet?

Answers:

• Because people could turn up claiming copyright infirigement

• Because they will not lead to fresh traffic

• Because you will not get the benefits of proper keyword targeting

• Because you could be penalized by search engine for using duplicate contents

3. What does SERP stand for?

Answers:

• Search engine results page.

• Search engine results plan.

• Search engine results position.

• Search engine recurring payment.

• Search engine retirement plan.

4. Which type of url redirect is the most favorable for SEO?

Answers:

• 404

• 413

• 818

• 301

5. How often should a blog be updated for the best SEO results?

Answers:

• As often as humanly possible

• Once a month to build "Thirst"

• Rarely, but with high content quality

• Once a week

• Consistently within reason and with quality content

6. Long-tail keywords are:

Answers:

• Used most often as social media hashtags

• Key phrases with repeating words

• Keywords generated through email chains

• Searched less often than common keywords

7. How often a keyword is mentioned relatively to the space on a page is called:

Answers:

• Keyword density

• Keyword saturation

• Keyword consistency

• Keyword frequency

8. How can one site 'recommend' another in the eyes of Google?

Answers:

• Emails to Google's tech department

• Collaborating on online ad campaign

• Linking to the site on their own page

• Liking' or 'staring' their Facebook page, Google+ profile, and Tweets

9. Links used in 'link trading' are called:

Answers:

• Co-links

• Reciprocal links

• Mutually Beneficial Links

• Symbiotic Linking

10. Flash Ads, by default, have a higher Quality Score than Static Ads.

Answers:

• True

• False

11. The top social media network for appearing high in Google's SEO rankings is:

Answers:

• Twitter

• Google Plus

• Instagram

• Facebook

12. What type of written content leads to higher page rankings?

Answers:

• Bulleted lists with relevant keywords

• Strategic abbreviations coupled with relevant keywords

• Keywords stylized with hashtags and unique text formatting

• Complete sentences with relevant keywords

13. "Link building" increases the number and quality of

Answers:

• Links shared through social media

• Search engine results

• Outbound links

• Inbound links

14. What are breadcrumb lists?

Answers:

• A series of links from the same website found on the same page of search engine results.

• A row of internal links allowing visitors to quickly navigate back to a previous pages.

• A list of social media followers who link and share your content.

• Backlinks posted on related blogs.

15. What was the name of the 2011 change to Google's search results ranking algorithm?

Answers:

• Google Plebian

• Google Panda

• Google Pelican

• Google Penguin

16. Alexa is a traffic ranking platform owned by:

Answers:

• Apple

• Amazon

• Microsoft

• Google

17. Which of the following does NOT benefit link building efforts?

Answers:

• Blog comments

• Breadcrumb links

• Forum signature linking

• Website directory submission

18. If you are driving a lot of PPC traffic to your website, but none of that traffic converts into leads, it’s an indication that:

Answers:

• Most of the traffic is coming from social media

• Your search term is too specific and should be shortened

• Your marketing offer is insufficient or hard to identify

• You are bidding too high for your PPC terms

19. Which of the following statement about FFA pages are true?

Answers:

• They contain numerous inbound links

• They are Paid Listings

• They are also called Link Farms

• They are greatly beneficial to SEO

20. If a website's search engine saturation for a particular search engine is 20%, what does it mean?

Answers:

• Search engines often pass on long tail searches to lesser known and new websites

• 20% of the websites pages will never be indexed

• Only 20% of the pages of the website will ever be indexed by the search engine

• 20% of the website pages have been indexed by the search engine

21. What factor is the largest contributor to a site's authority?

Answers:

• Quality of sites providing inbound links

• Likes on Facebook + Followers on Twitter

• Number of social media networks a business is present on

• How useful the content of a site is

22. Which type of content will deliver better ROI over time?

Answers:

• Articles optimized for more than 5 keywords

• Articles with over 500 words

• Content with a high number of outbound links

• Content that is submitted to directories

• Evergreen Content

23. What is the difference between search engine marketing (SEM) and Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?

Answers:

• SEM campaigns encourage marketers to develop landing pages and conversion rate optimization while SEO professionals only optimize keyword rankings on organic search result pages.

• SEM is part of SEO process

• SEM Campaigns are designed to utilize both Paid and Organic methodologies to promote businesses, while SEO only promotes traffic through organic search.

• SEM covers social media marketing while SEO focuses only on organic

24. What is the illegal act of copying of a page by unauthorized parties in order to filter off traffic to another site called?

Answers:

• View Jacking

• Page Jacking

• Visitors Jacking

• Traffic jacking

25. After Google, what is the web's most trafficked content destination on the web?

Answers:

• Ask

• Aol

• YouTube

• Yahoo!

• Bing

26. True or False? Google recognizes text within pictures.

Answers:

• True

• False

27. SEO favors a consistent title for all pages within a website over unique titles for each page.

Answers:

• True

• False

28. In AdWords, a value that's used to determine your ad position, where ads are shown on a page is:

Answers:

• CPC Bid

• Edge Rank

• Ad Relevance

• Quality Score

• Ad Rank

29. What happens if you ONLY raise your bids?

Answers:

• Increase Conversion Rate

• Increase CTR

• Increase Quality Score

• Increase Ad Rank

30. When you delete a page of your website, what should you do?

Answers:

• Redirect to the URL address of the category of the page, if any.

• Remove the URL address via Google Webmaster Tools.

• Redirect the URL address to your homepage.

• Do nothing.

31. A -50% bid adjustment at device level will make your Mobile CPC half of your desktop CPC.

Answers:

• True

• False

32. What is called "Page Rank"?

Answers:

• The quality of webpage content.

• Google's link analysis algorithm

• A method used to differentiate positive and negative SEO campaigns.

• How pages cumulatively rank across all search engines.

33. What term is used to describe the word or phrase users enter into a Google search?

Answers:

• Identifier

• Keyword

• Query

• Input

34. True or False? Black Hat SEO has been eliminated via Google Spiders

Answers:

• TRUE

• False

35. Which factor does NOT influence Quality Score in AdWords campaign?

Answers:

• past CTR

• landing page quality

• ad relevance

• CPC bid

36. To enable conversion optimizer in Google AdWords, a campaign must:

Answers:

• Have at least 30 conversions in the past 30-days

• Conversion optimizer is the default setting for all campaigns in Google AdWords

• Have at least 15 conversions in the last 30 days.

• Have conversion tracking, but no minimum conversions are required

• Have at least 15 conversions in the past 15-days

37. Generic keywords and key terms are called:

Answers:

• Head Terms

• Vanilla Terms

• White Terms

• Ground Terms

38. Meta descriptions factor into Google's ranking algorithms for web search.

Answers:

• True

• False

39. Can you use Google Authorship tag on company pages?

Answers:

• Yes, if the content of the page is longer than 1500 words.

• Yes, if you are one of the managers of company's Google+ page.

• Yes, if you linked your Gmail account with your company email service(e.g. first_last_name@companydomain.com).

• No, its use is intended for blog purposes only.

Best SEO & PPC Questions and Answers

1. What does PPC stand for?

Answers:

• Pay-per-click

• Past-performance-check

• Position-price-chart

2. The weight applied to an inbound link based on the klout of the referring website is called:

Answers:

• Link Juice

• Page Rank

• Link Power

3. What are organic search results?

Answers:

• Results based on content and keyword relevancy, free of commercial investment

• Results based on originality of content

• Results organized by how often the search term is used outside the internet

4. What acronym refers to the results produced when a search is entered?

Answers:

• GSFR

• ROI

• SERP

5. Where does Google house its most popular keyword discovery tool?

Answers:

• Google+

• AdWords

• Analytics

6. What is the black hat SEO method of displaying content to internet bots that is different than the content displayed on a user's bowser?

Answers:

• Screening

• Course Correction

• Cloaking

7. What internet bots are used to validate hyperlinks and HTML code?

Answers:

• Surfers

• Spyware

• Spiders

8. CTR stands for

Answers:

• Controlled Technology Regulations

• Click Through Rate

• Content Through  Repetition

9. How are videos and images read by search engines?

Answers:

• Through outsourced Google employee teams working overseas.

• Through light sensitive color coded data recgonization.

• Through tags, file names, and other words that describe them

10. What term refers to Google removing a page from their search results?

Answers:

• De-indexed

• Power Purged

• Excommunicated

11. What type of sitemap file should be used for SEO?

Answers:

• XML

• WWW

• XFL

12. What two broad areas make up SEM?

Answers:

• SEO & PPC

• SEO & SOO

• SEA & OCN

13. What program did Google implement to penalize black hat SEO?

Answers:

• Pigeon

• Penguin

• Puffin

14. A search engine's method for gathering and prioritizing website content is called:

Answers:

• Scouting

• Indexing

• Sourcing

15.  Which of the following tools allows you to track page views, unique visitors and conversion statistics?

Answers:

• Alexa

• Google Analytics

• Google AdWords

16. A link from another website pointing to your own is called:

Answers:

• Friendly Link

• Inbound Link

• Link Assistance

17. True or False? Websites created entirely in Flash are better for SEO.

Answers:

• TRUE

• False

18. What does CPC stand for?

Answers:

• Content Pre Calculation

• Comment Placement Correction

• Cost Per Click

19. What tactic will get you de-indexed by Google?

Answers:

• Buying links

• Duplicating content

• Cloaking

• (all of these choices)

20. What are landing pages?

Answers:

• Social media profiles.

• A website's home page.

• The destination page a user arrives on after clicking a link.

21. Generally, are SEO or PPC campaigns easier to track?

Answers:

• PPC

• SEO

22. What are the two, most heavily weighted factors Google uses to rank pages?

Answers:

• Content and inbound links

• Social media penetration and weekly traffic

• Money spent on Google advertising and physical server location

23. Which tags allow you to optimize images on your site for SEO?

Answers:

• Header Tags

• Alt tags

• Image tags

24. When posting on Google+, how long does it take for Google Search to index the content?

Answers:

• Months

• Almost instantly

• Weeks

25. What Amazon.com owned search service measures website traffic?

Answers:

• AmazAds

• AdWords

• Alexa

Pay Per Click (PPC) Marketing Guide for Beginner’s

When I first started out in PPC (Pay Per Click Marketing) I knew little about this industry. I had this rough idea that PPC ads were these little yellow text ads on top of Google’s search results. When I searched for something like “buy MacBook Pro in London” I was immediately shown a few ads which were offering exactly what I was looking for. Another thing I knew is that every time I clicked on an ad Google would make money from it. Actually, a whopping 96% of Google’s revenue came from advertising in 2011.

As I learned more about PPC I saw that there is much more to it than most people think. Paid Search is a very complex area of marketing, which is also quite competitive. Most retail brands already use PPC in one way or the other – either by themselves or through affiliates.

If you have your own website, online shop, plan on starting one, or if you just want to learn the basics of PPC, than the following will be especially interesting for you.

Before starting to set-up your first campaign you have to know a few basics, which will help you to understand how the whole process of creating and managing a PPC account really works.

PPC is Not Just About Google

One thing you need to know first: Google is not the only search engine, which provides PPC advertising services. In fact, every single search engine does it!
Besides Google AdWords, there is Bing (Microsoft) adCenter, Yandex Direct (Russia) and Baidu Paid Search (China) amongst many others.

And it’s Not Just Text Ads in SERPs

Another misconception about PPC is that it only serves ads on the Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs). Let’s take Google as an example:

As we all know, Google’s network is huge! Sites like YouTube, Blogger, Google Maps & Google News all belong to Google. This means that your ads can also be served on these sites.

Have you ever seen an ad before a YouTube video or a little text ad on the bottom of it? Or have you seen text ads next to some articles yoy read online? Yep, that’s paid search. You see, it’s also not always text ads. Google AdWords allows advertisers to use (animated) banner ads, text ads and video ads.
Also, Google has an option, which is called “Managed Placements“. This means that if a website joins Google’s advertising network (i.e. The Guardian), advertisers can place their banner ad directly on the website.

This 101 will be mostly about text ads, as this is the most common way of doing PPC.

Benefits of PPC

Why would somebody use PPC advertising? PPC gives you the opportunity to drive traffic to your website extremely fast. Once you create your campaign(s) your ads will start showing within 1-2 days. It gives your brand visibility, increases traffic and, if you have an online business, it can give you a nice revenue bump if you do it right. One of the retail-client accounts I was working on generated nearly 40% of their online revenue through paid search advertising. And that’s quite normal.

Besides everything mentioned above, there is one more benefit, which is, in my opinion, the most important one. PPC advertising gives you total control over your advertising campaigns and lets you track every single cent you have spent and received. This way you can easily calculate the ROI of your advertising and optimize your campaigns for maximum performance.

Also, Google is now increasing the amount of advertising on SERPs and decreases the amount of “organic” search results. Google already tested result pages with only 7 natural results, compared to the regular 10.

How to Start

So you are interested in starting a campaign of your own? It’s fairly simple to do if you know how to use a computer and follow the instructions below.

1. Create an AdWords account. Follow these instructions on how to create an AdWords account.
2. Choose the keywords, which you want to trigger your ads. For example: if you sell TVs, you probably want to appear for the search term “buy TV”. This is just one of the thousands (or even millions) of possible keywords.
3. When doing keyword research, check your keywords in the Google Keyword Tool, which will show you the search volume (popularity) of your keywords and other “keyword ideas”. I will describe the process of keyword research later in this post.
4. Determine your audience: know the people you are selling to. This doesn’t mean that you have to shake hands with every single one of them. Know what your target audience is about. Know what they like, what they do, how they behave. Check out the article about How to Define Your Target Audience.

Ad Rank – Who Gets The Top Position?

Back in the days when PPC was just starting out there was only one way to determine which ad will show higher on the page and which won’t show at all: plain auction. The one advertiser who bids higher gets the better position in the SERPs. That was in the past.

But now the situation has changed. Google has a system which helps the search engine to control advertising quality by making it a ranking factor. The formula looks like this: Ad Rank = max. CPC (the maximum amount you are willing to pay for a click on your ad) multiplied by the so-called “Quality Score”. The higher your Quality Score, the lower will be your CPC. The advertiser with the higher ad rank will get the better position.

Quality Score

Now you should know that Quality Score (from now on “QS”) is a very important factor in your advertising on Google.
QS is some kind of mystery for advertisers. There are a bunch of criteria, which are known for having influence on your QS, but nobody knows the exact factors.
Some factors influencing Quality Score are:

1. The relevance of your landing page to the keyword
2. The relevance of your ad to the keyword
3. The performance of your landing page – a slow-loading website will get a lower QS
4. Your Click-Through-Rate (CTR)
5. Historical performance of your campaigns

Basically, the higher your overall relevance, the higher your Quality Score. For sure, there are way more influencing factors, but these 3 are the most basic ones everybody should know about.

Account Structure

Before creating a new advertising campaign you should first know how you will structure everything. There are a few “layers”, which will make up your account: The actual Account > Campaigns > Ad Groups > Keywords. Meaning that your Keywords are bound to a group of ads. This group of ads is part of a campaign. The campaign will be part of your account. Simple as that.

Choose Your Keywords

Now you should choose a list of keywords, which you want to trigger your adverts. To do that, go to the Keyword Research Tool and enter the keywords you had in mind. This tool will not only help you to estimate how popular the keywords are but it will also give you a list of related keywords or “Keyword Ideas”.

Let’s assume that you choose 10 keywords you want to appear for. For example, you have the keyword “buy TV in London”. But what happens when somebody searches for “buy TV in London online”? This is where so-called “Keyword Match Types” come in.

Keyword Match Types

Let’s take the keyword “buy TV in London” and try to use it with the three different matching options.
There are 3 ways to match your keyword to a search query:

1. Broad Match

This matching option would make your ad show for the query “new TV buy in London online”. This is why this match type is called “Broad”.

2. Phrase Match

This type needs the search query to have the exact same word order as your keyword, but can have additional words in front or behind it. Meaning that your ad would be triggered if somebody would search for “online buy TV in London cheap”.

3. Exact Match

Exact Match is pretty much self-explanatory. Your ad is triggered ONLY if the search query matches your keyword EXACTLY.

A few months ago, Google introduced an option to opt-in for “Near Match”. This option allows Google to trigger your ad if the search query “closely matches” your keyword, is a plural/singular or a common misspelling. So you won’t have to worry about that.

But let’s say that you sell only Samsung TV’s and don’t want to waste your budget for people looking for Panasonic TV’s. Don’t worry, Google has taken care of that, too. AdWords allows you to add “negative keywords”. If your keyword is “buy TV in London” and you add the negative keyword “-Panasonic”, than the search query “buy Panasonic TV in London” won’t trigger your ad. You can add whole lists of negative keywords to your campaigns.

These matching options give you total control over the queries, which trigger your ads. Making sure that you have enough negative keywords will help you to not waste your advertising budget and improve your Click-Through-Rate (CTR)

CTR (%) = Clicks / Impressions.

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Google’s 27th Panda Update - Panda 4.1 - Is Rolling Out

 

Google has announced that the latest version of its Panda Update — a filter designed to penalize “thin” or poor content from ranking well — has been released.
Google said in a post on Google+ that a “slow rollout” began earlier this week and will continue into next week, before being complete. Google said that depending on location, about 3%-to-5% of search queries will be affected.
Anything different about this latest release? Google says it’s supposed to be more precise and will allow more high-quality small and medium-sized sites to rank better. From the post:

Based on user (and webmaster!) feedback, we’ve been able to discover a few more signals to help Panda identify low-quality content more precisely. This results in a greater diversity of high-quality small- and medium-sized sites ranking higher, which is nice.

New Chance For Some; New Penalty For Others

The rollout means anyone who was penalized by Panda in the last update has a chance to emerge, if they made the right changes. So if you were hit by Panda, made alterations to your site, you’ll know by the end of next week if those were good enough, if you see an increase in traffic.
The rollout also means that new sites not previously hit by Panda might get impacted. If you’ve seen a sudden traffic drop from Google this week, or note one in the coming days, then this latest Panda Update is likely to blame.

About That Number

Why are we calling it Panda 4.1? Well, Google itself called the last one Panda 4.0 and deemed it a major update. This isn’t as big of a change, so we’re going with Panda 4.1.
We actually prefer to number these updates in the order that they’ve happened, because trying to determine if something is a “major” or “minor” Panda Update is imprecise and lead to numbering absurdities like having a Panda 3.92 Update.
But since Google called the last one Panda 4.0, we went with that name — and we’ll continue on with the old-fashioned numbering system unless it gets absurd again.
For the record, here’s the list of confirmed Panda Updates, with some of the major changes called out with their AKA (also known as) names:

1. Panda Update 1, AKA
   Panda 1.0, Feb. 24, 2011 (11.8% of queries; announced; English in US only)
2. Panda Update 2, AKA
   Panda 2.0, April 11, 2011 (2% of queries; announced; rolled out in English internationally)
3. Panda Update 3, May 10, 2011 (no change given; confirmed, not announced)
4. Panda Update 4, June 16, 2011 (no change given; confirmed, not announced)
5. Panda Update 5, July 23, 2011 (no change given; confirmed, not announced)
6. Panda Update 6, Aug. 12, 2011 (6-9% of queries in many non-English languages; announced)
7. Panda Update 7, Sept. 28, 2011 (no change given; confirmed, not announced)
8. Panda Update 8 AKA
   Panda 3.0, Oct. 19, 2011 (about 2% of queries; belatedly confirmed)
9. Panda Update 9, Nov. 18, 2011: (less than 1% of queries; announced)
10. Panda Update 10, Jan. 18, 2012 (no change given; confirmed, not announced)
11. Panda Update 11, Feb. 27, 2012 (no change given; announced)
12. Panda Update 12, March 23, 2012 (about 1.6% of queries impacted; announced)
13. Panda Update 13, April 19, 2012 (no change given; belatedly revealed)
14. Panda Update 14, April 27, 2012: (no change given; confirmed; first update within days of another)
15. Panda Update 15, June 9, 2012: (1% of queries; belatedly announced)
16. Panda Update 16, June 25, 2012: (about 1% of queries; announced)
17. Panda Update 17, July 24, 2012:(about 1% of queries; announced)
18. Panda Update 18, Aug. 20, 2012: (about 1% of queries; belatedly announced)
19. Panda Update 19, Sept. 18, 2012: (less than 0.7% of queries; announced)
20. Panda Update 20 , Sept. 27, 2012 (2.4% English queries, impacted, belatedly announced
21. Panda Update 21, Nov. 5, 2012 (1.1% of English-language queries in US; 0.4% worldwide; confirmed, not announced)
22. Panda Update 22, Nov. 21, 2012 (0.8% of English queries were affected; confirmed, not announced)
23. Panda Update 23, Dec. 21, 2012 (1.3% of English queries were affected; confirmed, announced)
24. Panda Update 24, Jan. 22, 2013 (1.2% of English queries were affected; confirmed, announced)
25. Panda Update 25, March 15, 2013 (confirmed as coming; not confirmed as having happened)
26. Panda Update 26 AKA
    Panda 4.0, May 20, 2014 (7.5% of English queries were affected; confirmed, announced)
27. Panda Update 27 AKA
    Panda 4.1, Sept. 25, 2014 (3-5% of queries were affected; confirmed, announced)

The latest update comes four months after the last, which suggests that this might be a new quarterly cycle that we’re on. Panda had been updated on a roughly monthly basis during 2012. In 2013, most of the year saw no update at all.
Of course, there could have been unannounced releases of Panda that have happened. The list above is only for those that have been confirmed by Google.

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Remove Unnecessary ads from Web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome)

Remove Pop-up Ads from Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome

Pop-up ads, or advertising-supported software, is any software package which automatically renders advertisements in order to generate revenue for its author. The advertisements may be in the user interface of the software or on a screen presented to the user during the installation process. The functions may be designed to analyze which Internet sites the user visits and to present advertising pertinent to the types of goods or services featured there. The term is sometimes used to refer to software that displays unwanted advertisements


Adware, or advertising-supported software, displays advertising banners or pop-ups on your computer when you use your Internet Browser (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome or Opera). This is not necessarily a bad thing. Such advertising can fund the development of useful software, which is then distributed free (for example, Android apps, many of which are adware funded).
However, adware becomes a problem if it:

• installs itself on your computer without your consent
• installs itself in applications other than the one
• it came with and displays advertising when you use those applications
• hijacks your web browser in order to display more ads
• gathers data on your web browsing without your consent and sends it to others via the Internet
• is designed to be difficult to uninstall

Adware can slow down your PC. It can also slow down your Internet connection by downloading advertisements. Sometimes programming flaws in the adware can make your computer unstable. Advertising pop-ups can also distract you and waste your time if they have to be closed before you can continue using your PC.

Malware Adware are computer infections that are typically installed on your computer through two methods. The first method is when these Adware programs pretend to be something innocuous so that you will download and install them, but once installed all they do is display ads. The other method is when they are installed without your permission or knowledge through Windows or software vulnerabilities on your computer. Adware of this type are the most difficult to remove and typically use protection mechanisms that make it hard to run security programs to assist in removing them.
If your computer is infected with Adware or any other type of malicious software, you can follow the below guide, and easily clean up your infected computer.

How to remove Adware and pop-up ads (Removal Guide)

This page is a comprehensive guide, which will remove Pop-up Ads from Internet Explorer, Firefox and Google Chrome.
Please perform all the steps in the correct order. If you have any questions or doubt at any point, STOP and ask for our assistance.
STEP 1: Uninstall Pop-up Ads malicious programs from your computer
STEP 2: Remove Pop-up Ads from Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome
STEP 3: Remove Pop-up Ads adware with AdwCleaner
STEP 4: Remove Pop-up Ads browser hijackers with Junkware Removal Tool
STEP 5: Remove Pop-up Ads virus with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Free
STEP 6: Double-check for the Pop-up Ads infection with HitmanPro

STEP 1 : Uninstall Pop-up Ads program from your computer

Most Pop-up Adss will install a program on your computer, while this is not a general rule, we will need to check for any malicious programs.
In this first step, we will try to identify and remove any malicious program that might be installed on your computer.

1. To uninstall the program that has installed is responsible for the pop-up ads, click the Start button, then click on the Control Panel menu option.
   
   If you are using Windows 8, simply drag your mouse pointer to the right edge of the screen, select Search from the list and search for “control panel” .Or you can right-click on a bottom left hot corner (formerly known as the Start button) and select Control Panel from there.
   
2. When the Control Panel window opens click on the Uninstall a program option under Programs category. This option is shown by the arrow in the image below. If you are using the Classic View of the Control Panel, then you would double-click on the Programs and Features icon instead.
   
3. When the Programs and Features or the Uninstall a Program screen is displayed, scroll through the list of currently installed programs and uninstall AlllCheapPeruiCe 5.2, YoubeAdBlocker 1.2, TheBlooccker 1.3, Video Player, Plus-HD 1.3, BetterSurf, CouponMeApp, TubeAdblOCkER, BLoCkTheADApp 3.2, WatchItAdBlocake, Media Player 1.1, Savings Bull, Start Savin, Websteroids, ScorpionSaver, HD-Plus 3.5, Media Watch, Re-Markit, Remarkable, SupTab, Key-Find uninstaller, Feven Pro 1.2, HD-Plus, HD-Professional-HQ, Quick Share  and any other recently installed unknown program from your computer.
   To view the most recently installed programs, you can click on the “Installed On” column to sort your program by the installation date. Scroll though the list, and uninstall any unwanted or unknown programs
   
   Depending on what program has installed the adware infection, the above program may have a different name or not be installed on your computer. If you cannot find any unwanted or unknown programs on your machine, then you can proceed with the next step.

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STEP 2 : Remove Pop-up Ads from Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome

Remove Pop-up Ads from Internet Explorer

You can reset Internet Explorer settings to return them to the state they were in when Internet Explorer was first installed on your PC.

1. Open Internet Explorer, click on the “gear icon”  in the upper right part of your browser, then click again on Internet Options.
   
2. In the “Internet Options” dialog box, click on the “Advanced” tab, then click on the “Reset” button.
   
3. In the “Reset Internet Explorer settings” section, select the “Delete personal settings” check box, then click on “Reset” button.
   
4. When Internet Explorer has completed its task, click on the “Close” button in the confirmation dialogue box. You will now  need to close your browser, and then you can open Internet Explorer again.
   

Remove Pop-up Ads from Mozilla Firefox

If you’re having problems with Firefox, resetting it can help. The reset feature fixes many issues by restoring Firefox to its factory default state while saving your essential information like bookmarks, passwords, web form auto-fill information, browsing history and open tabs.

1. In the upper-right corner of the Firefox window, click the Firefox menu button (), the click on the “Help” () button.
   If you’re unable to access the Help menu, type about:support in your address bar to bring up the Troubleshooting information page.
   
2. From the Help menu choose Troubleshooting Information.
   
3. Click the “Reset Firefox” button in the upper-right corner of the “Troubleshooting Information” page.
   
4. To continue, click on the “Reset Firefox” button in the new confirmation window that opens.
   
5. Firefox will close itself and will revert to its default settings. When it’s done, a window will list the information that was imported. Click on the “Finish“.

Note: Your old Firefox profile will be placed on your desktop in a folder named “Old Firefox Data“. If the reset didn’t fix your problem you can restore some of the information not saved by copying files to the new profile that was created. If you don’t need this folder any longer, you should delete it as it contains sensitive information.

Remove pop-up ads from Google Chrome

1. Click on Chrome’s main menu button, represented by three horizontal lines () .When the drop-down menu appears, select the option labeled Settings.
   
2. Chrome’s Settings should now be displayed in a new tab or window, depending on your configuration. Next, scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the Show advanced settings link (as seen in the below example).
   
3. Chrome’s advanced Settings should now be displayed. Scroll down until the Reset browser settings section is visible, as shown in the example below. Next, click on the Reset browser settings button.
   
4. A confirmation dialog should now be displayed, detailing the components that will be restored to their default state should you continue on with the reset process. To complete the restoration process, click on the Reset button.
   

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STEP 3: Remove Pop-up Ads adware from your computer with AdwCleaner.

The AdwCleaner utility will scan your computer and web browser for malicious files, adware browser extensions and registry keys, that may have been installed on your computer without your knowledge.

1. You can download AdwCleaner utility from the below link.
   ADWCLEANER DOWNLOAD LINK (This link will automatically download AdwCleaner on your computer)
2. Before starting AdwCleaner, close all open programs and internet browsers, then double-click on the AdwCleaner icon.
   
   If Windows prompts you as to whether or not you wish to run AdwCleaner, please allow it to run.
3. When the AdwCleaner program will open, click on the “Scan” button as shown below.
   
   AdwCleaner will now start to search for the any malicious files that may be installed on your computer.
4. To remove the malicious files that were detected in the previous step, please click on the “Clean” button.
   
5. AdwCleaner will now prompt you to save any open files or documents, as the program will need to reboot the computer. Please do so and then click on the OK button.
   

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STEP 4: Remove Pop-up Ads browser hijacker with Junkware Removal Tool

Junkware Removal Tool is a powerful utility, which will remove Pop-up Ads redirect from Internet Explorer, Firefox or Google Chrome.

1. You can download the Junkware Removal Tool utility from the below link:
   JUNKWARE REMOVAL TOOL DOWNLOAD LINK (This link will automatically download the Junkware Removal Tool utility on your computer)
2. Once Junkware Removal Tool has finished downloading, please double-click on the JRT.exe icon as seen below.
   
   If Windows prompts you as to whether or not you wish to run Junkware Removal Tool, please allow it to run.
3. Junkware Removal Tool will now start, and at the Command Prompt, you’ll need to press any key to perform a scan for the Pop-up Ads hijacker.
   
   Please be patient as this can take a while to complete (up to 10 minutes) depending on your system’s specifications.
4. When the scan Junkware Removal Tool will be completed, this utility will display a log with the malicious files and registry keys that were removed from your computer.
   

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STEP 5: Remove Pop-up Ads virus with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware FREE

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Free uses industry-leading technology to detect and remove all traces of malware, including worms, Trojans, rootkits, rogues, dialers, spyware, and more.
It is important to note that Malwarebytes Anti-Malware works well and should run alongside antivirus software without conflicts.

1. You can download download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware from the below link.
   MALWAREBYTES ANTI-MALWARE DOWNLOAD LINK (This link will open a new web page from where you can download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Free)
2. Once downloaded, close all programs, then double-click on the icon on your desktop named “mbam-setup-consumer-2.00.xx” to start the installation of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware.
   
   You may be presented with a User Account Control dialog asking you if you want to run this file. If this happens, you should click “Yes” to continue with the installation.
3. When the installation begins, you will see the Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Setup Wizard which will guide you through the installation process.
   
   To install Malwarebytes Anti-Malware on your machine, keep following the prompts by clicking the “Next” button.
   
4. Once installed, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will automatically start and you will see a message stating that you should update the program, and that a scan has never been run on your system. To start a system scan you can click on the “Fix Now” button.
   
   Alternatively, you can click on the “Scan” tab and select “Threat Scan“, then click on the “Scan Now” button.
   
5. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will now check for updates, and if there are any, you will need to click on the “Update Now” button.
   
6. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will now start scanning your computer for the pop-up virus. When Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is scanning it will look like the image below.
   
7. When the scan has completed, you will now be presented with a screen showing you the malware infections that Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware has detected. To remove the malicious programs that Malwarebytes Anti-malware has found, click on the “Quarantine All” button, and then click on the “Apply Now” button.
   
   Please note that the infections found may be different than what is shown in the image.
8. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will now quarantine all the malicious files and registry keys that it has found. When removing the files, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware may require a reboot in order to remove some of them. If it displays a message stating that it needs to reboot your computer, please allow it to do so.
   
   After your computer will restart, you should open Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and perform another “Threat Scan” scan to verify that there are no remaining threats

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STEP 6: Double-check for the Pop-up Ads infection with HitmanPro

HitmanPro is a second opinion scanner, designed to rescue your computer from malware (viruses, trojans, rootkits, etc.) that have infected your computer despite all the security measures you have taken (such as anti virus software, firewalls, etc.). HitmanPro is designed to work alongside existing security programs without any conflicts. It scans the computer quickly (less than 5 minutes) and does not slow down the computer.

1. You can download HitmanPro from the below link:
   HITMANPRO DOWNLOAD LINK (This link will open a new web page from where you can download HitmanPro)
2. Double-click on the file named “HitmanPro.exe” (for 32-bit versions of Windows) or “HitmanPro_x64.exe” (for 64-bit versions of Windows). When the program starts you will be presented with the start screen as shown below.
   
   Click on the “Next” button, to install HitmanPro on your computer.
   
3. HitmanPro will now begin to scan your computer for any malicious files that may be on your machine.
   
4. When it has finished it will display a list of all the malware that the program found as shown in the image below. Click on the “Next” button, to remove any virus that has been found.
   
5. Click on the “Activate free license” button to begin the free 30 days trial, and remove all the malicious files from your computer.
   

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Your computer should now be free of the Pop-up Ads infection. If your current anti-virus solution let this infection through, you may want to consider purchasing the Premium version of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware to protect against these types of threats in the future.
If you are still experiencing problems while trying to remove Pop-up Ads from your machine, please start a new thread in our Malware Removal Assistance forum.

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